Town's Community Space to be Named After Al Merritt

Citing former colleague's service to the town, selectmen vote to name community area at MarketStreet after Al Merritt.

The new community space at MarketStreet Lynnfield will be named after former Selectman Al Merritt, who resigned on December 31st for health reasons. Bob MacKendrick and Dave Nelson approved the proposal Monday night to name the forthcoming facility “The Al Merritt Media And Cultural Center.” Nelson noted that the name has already been discussed with both Merritt and with National Development, the company building MarketStreet Lynnfield. Merritt’s seat on the board of selectmen remains vacant until the April town election. Nelson noted that the naming choice was “in honor of Al’s service to the (MarketStreet) project and to his outstanding service to the town of Lynnfield.” MacKendrick concurred that naming the center after Merritt is “…

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Where Is The Local Access TV Stuff Kept?

Town's local access TV equipment is in a small room at LHS that's easy to miss and which vaguely reminds your local editor of his first studio apartment.

Early in the year, this website ran an article on an emerging effort underway in town to find a home for a new local access TV studio and to upgrade existing services. Since then, I've been curious about where the current Lynnfield Cable Access facility is. It turned out I've probably walked past it a dozen times in the past year when attending various events at Lynnfield High School - and there may also be a chance that students of past decades once spent their detention time in the stuffy little window-less space. I finally tracked down the Lynnfield Cable Access studio after a recent school committee meeting with help from director Eric Hamlin, who gave a brief tour of the facilities and some of the equipment. At first glance, I thought…

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Committee Seeks To Enhance Local Access TV

First priority for committee is finding location for a local access studio in town.

An effort has been getting underway in Lynnfield that could greatly enhance the town's cable access TV services in the coming months. Town resident Rich Sokolow was at the selectmen's meeting this week to discuss the current state of Lynnfield's Cable Access TV system, with an eye on moving toward creating a studio in Lynnfield. Federal law requires cable operators to provide some funds to their respective towns each year to run local access programming for public, educational and government purposes. More information about this law, the Federal Communications Act of 1984, can be viewed here. Sokolow recalled how his daughter's Girl Scout troop had visited the Peabody cable access studio on a field trip and had been very impressed by the …

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Don

10:43 am on Friday, January 13, 2012

This is something that is very interesting. Wakefield and other towns create local programming. We should be able to do that too and it would be interesting to take the classes and meet people who would like to do the same things.   more ›